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B.C. Liberal Leader Christy Clark was campaigning in northeastern B.C. today, promoting her plan to use the area's rich natural gas reserves to lift the province out of debt.

On Thursday morning Clark toured several facilities in the area including a water reclamation plant in Dawson Creek where sewage water is reclaimed and used for fracking, a process that helps open up underground gas reserves.

Clark claims that if B.C. invested in the infrastructure to convert natural gas to liquefied natural gas, the resulting dollars would be enough to pay off the provincial debt and invest in the province's future.

"The northeast of British Columbia is home to British Columbia's economic opportunity of a lifetime. Liquefied natural gas is the industry that will make British Columbia debt free. You, here in the north east, are world leaders in safely recovering natural gas," Clark told a crowd in Dawson Creek.

"If you can't get the resource out of the ground, not only are you going to put thousands and thousands of people out of work in the Peace Region, you are going to imperil the future of our entire province."